10-letter words containing p, o, v, i
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- pro-soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
- processive — advancing or going forward; progressive: the processive quality of language.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- projective — of or relating to projection.
- promissive — implying promise
- propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
- protective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.
- protervity — petulance
- protestive — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
- provection — (in Celtic languages) the devoicing of a consonant
- proveditor — (in the Venetian republic) a senior civilian officer in charge of supplies, provisions, and artillery for the city
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- providence — a state of the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast: a part of New England. 1214 sq. mi. (3145 sq. km). Capital: Providence. Abbreviation: RI (for use with zip code), R.I.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provisions — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provitamin — a substance that an organism can transform into a vitamin, as carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the liver.
- responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- supportive — giving support.
- unimproved — not developed to full potential, as resources or the mind.
- unprovided — not provided or supplied
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- valparaiso — Spanish Valparaíso [bahl-pah-rah-ee-saw] /ˌbɑl pɑ rɑˈi sɔ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in central Chile.
- vanpooling — the sharing of a van to commute to work
- vaporiform — in the form or state of vapour
- vapulation — the act of beating or whipping
- velocipede — a vehicle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider.
- vibraphone — vibraharp.
- vibrograph — a device for recording mechanical vibrations.
- video clip — short videotape extract
- video shop — a shop that sells and rents videos and DVDs
- video tape — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
- video-porn — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- videophile — an enthusiast of television, video recording, video equipment, or the like.
- videophone — a telephone that incorporates both voice and video capabilities.
- viewpoints — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
- vip lounge — a room for example at an airport where rich people, celebrities etc can go
- viperiform — resembling, or in the shape of, a viper
- visiophone — a videophone